Tag Archives for " Water "

May 09

#720. Drop it ! And start training.

By pascaljappy | How-To

This is me walking the walk. Have mercy!     It started out innocently enough. Philippe and I were chatting over Skype (we do that) when those clouds appeared over the horizon. I run to the camera, knowing how fleeting those moments are when everything in nature lines up, and get there … too late. […]

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Kogel Baai morning
Sep 14

#277. Fighting off Otus envy.

By Paul Perton | Opinion

Zeiss’ 55mm Otus doesn’t stir me much. Of course, I want one; I’m a photographer after all. But I’ve got an ancient 50mm f1.4 manual focus AI Nikkor that delivers fantastic images and I still haven’t learned to get the best out of it yet. Besides which, it was a US$96 eBay buy. Zeiss’ monster […]

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Aug 14

#266. Watery. On purpose.

By Paul Perton | How-To

Full of them, the Internet is. Watery pictures. Soft, silky and even plastic looking. Golden brown falls, tannin-rich, ethereal. Even the ocean seems to respond well to a careful photographer. Yeah, I know it’s all pretty straightforward, but several years shooting the ocean and local streams has given me a set of basics; simple rules […]

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Sunset at Kogel Bay
Jun 18

#244. Limbering up

By Paul Perton | Opinion

In the couple of weeks since I got back from Greenland, winter has arrived full-on in the Cape. The weather has gone from it’s usual late autumn balmy to wet, overcast and decidedly chilly. The thermometer plunged to 1C the other morning; a definite reminder of my recent Arctic trip. So, it’s been a couple […]

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Aug 31

#31. Frozen amoeba

By pascaljappy | News

One cold morning last winter, having spotted a goshawk diving onto a group of pigeons eating wild seeds on the ground, I followed it into a field in the hope of making pictures of the hunt. Having only a 50mm lens with me, the resulting pictures were weak and boring but luck guided me to […]

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